[quote=Junior82]Opening game cards from Westpac Stadium website:
2007/08: 14,177 (26 Aug, Tards)
2008/09: 9,077 (17 Aug Roar)
2009/10: 9,006 (16 Aug, Perf)
2010/11: 7,954 (13 Aug, GCU)
2011/12: 7,173 (16 Oct, Jests)
2012/13: 11,575 (6 Oct, Bling
2013/14: 8,039 (13 Oct, Roar)
2014/15: 7,452 (12 Oct, Perf)
Our crowds have actually been reasonably steady over 7 years. Season 1 was always going to be higher.
The crowds lift at the end of season if we are doing well.
Rugby crowds have rapidly been declining while ours have remained steady. Yet the nix are the ones who are reported to have small and declining crowds in the media.
Kids free tickets don't work. They devalue the worth of a nix ticket as people modify their behaviour to only go when they can get a free ticket. Think the club are better off pushing a big kids event once a season and make a big day of it. I quite like the kids area with access to the pitch that somebody else mentioned - maybe you could make kids half price for that day too. It'd be best at the middle of the season when crowds are never going to be that big and casuals aren't interested. If you couple it with having games at the Hutt rec in the middle of the season you really could make a big event of it that the Hutt council would probably even be keen to piggyback on and help fund.